Marist College Educates the Next Generation of Mainframe Administrators With IBM System z, IBM z/VM and IBM System Storage

Executive Summary

Marist College is a leading comprehensive liberal arts institution that has gained a reputation as a trailblazer in virtualization and mainframe technologies. Over the past 30 years, Marist has continually relied on IBM to provide powerful, new functionalities and IT equipment to support the organization's ongoing commitment to adopting vital technologies and applying them to both teaching and learning. Marist College recently upgraded their IBM System z900 to an IBM System z9. The z9 mainframe runs IBM z/OS as well as IBM z/VM, which enables high performance for the organization's hosted virtual servers, including Linux machines. Storage for the z9 is being transitioned to two IBM System Storage DS8100 disk storage systems.